Kratom for Diabetes and Metabolic Disease

Amebic Dysentery or IBS? Self-Treatment for Both IBS and Amoebic Dysentery at Home

Self-Treatment for Amebic Dysentery and Some Cases of IBS Entamoeba histolytica causes bloody diarrhea, amebic dysentery, and is transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Tropical climates and poor sanitary conditions facilitate transmission, as does anal sex, at least according to Big Pharma. The majority of infections run a mild course involving abdominal pain and loose stools, but a subset of patients present with systemic symptoms, fever, and dysentery. More serious cases of amebic dysentery can require differentiation from inflammatory bowel disease (IBS), particularly ulcerative colitis, since the presentation of these two gastrointestinal diseases overlap. This is an important point that deserves some scrutiny by patients who have been diagnosed with IBS. Is it possible that IBS...

Natural Schizophrenia Treatment / Natural Psychosis Treatment: Mitragyna speciosa -- How and Why It Works

Kratom's Antipsychotic Effects: How and Why It Works to Treat Psychosis Naturally If you’re new to the literature that Lydi and I have written about natural treatments for psychosis and the role of trauma is psychosis, we’ll have to set the context here a bit in order to talk about kratom as a natural anti-psychotic medicine. If you aren’t an expert on trauma, what it is and how to treat it, be sure to follow the links to better understand the content of this section about kratom. In conventional medicine / psychiatry and psychology, psychosis is not curable, but if you or a loved one has recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia, or any number of other psychiatric illnesses that involve psychosis and a potentially hopeless trajectory, you need to find a new model to work with in o...

Kratom as a Stimulant / Kratom as a Sedative: How It Works

Stimulant / Energizing Effects and Sedating / Relaxing Effects At lower doses (usually below 5 grams per day), kratom tends to have stimulating, energizing effects on the body. This is likely due to mitragynine’s activity at adrenergic receptors. In Southeast Asia, most people use kratom daily as an energizing herb that’s similar in some respects to coffee (Mitragyna speciosa, after all, belongs to same family as coffee plants). Kratom has a dose-dependent bi-phasic profile such that lower doses produce energizing and pain-relieving effects, however,  pain relief is a bit less at the lower doses. At high doses, kratom acts more like a relaxant or a sedative with higher pain-relieving effects. Different veins and strains of kratom produce different qualities in terms of pain relie...

Kratom for Depression / Kratom for Anxiety

Mitragyna speciosa's Mood Balancing Effects Mitragynine, Speciociliatine, and Corynantheidine all act as anti-depressants in scientific studies. Scientists believe that these particular substances in kratom act on serotonin receptors and adrenergic receptors to regulate mood and relieve depression as well as anxiety.  As an herbal anti-depressant, kratom works on many levels. Depression is associated with inflammation in the body and kratom’s anti-inflammatory effects are therefore beneficial both in terms of physical as well as emotional health. Mitragynine produces effects on the nervous system as well as the endocrine system, impacting the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in a balancing way that can improve mood and reduce depression. Lower doses may, in some cases, be more ef...